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Literacy
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Ready to Read: England
Learning to read well starts early, and good early language skills are the vital stepping stone. If children do not learn to speak and listen from an early age, along with developing their understanding of the meaning of words and stories, they will strug
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Reading Takes Me to Another Place
As part of Save the Children’s Read On. Get On. Campaign, which aims to have all children in Scotland reading confidently by the age of 11, Children’s Parliament was commissioned by Save the Children to undertake direct engagement with children of primary
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Futures Under Threat: The impact of the education crisis on Syria's children
Futures under Threat shines a light on the scale and extent of the education crisis for children inside Syria and for those living as refugees in neighbouring countries. Before the war almost all of Syria’s children were enrolled in school. Literacy rates
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Read on Get on
New research published here starkly shows that the UK has the strongest link among developed nations between poor literacy and unemployment. Only one other country in Europe, Romania, has more unequal reading attainment among ten-year-olds. This report se
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Reading England's Future: Mapping how well the poorest children read
The Read On. Get On. campaign has brought together a wide range of organisations to take action towards a historic goal for the UK: all children should be reading well by the age of 11 by 2025. Reading England’s Future charts the geography of reading disa
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Unlocking potential through education: Key achievements
Globally, great strides have been made towards achieving universal primary education since 2000. However, there are still 57 million children worldwide who are denied their right to education, half of whom live in conflict-affected or fragile states and a
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Early Literacy Promotion in Rwanda: Opportunities and obstacles
Rwanda has achieved remarkable progress in expanding access to schooling, but there are still significant challenges to address—including the question of how to ensure that all children learn to read. A recent study found that only 32% of Primary 6 studen
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All Children Reading Well at 11 by 2025: Our call to the next UK government
Education is key to unlocking a child’s potential and one of the best routes out of poverty, it is the foundation on which so much else depends: children first ‘learn to read’, then they ‘read to learn’. A commitment to getting all children reading will
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Advancing the Right to Read in Rwanda: Programme baselines and studies- Summary Report
In 2013, Save the Children launched an education signature programme, Advancing the Right to Read (ARR), which is now operational in five districts in Rwanda. The programme aims to contribute to addressing the global crisis in learning by providing a cont
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Review: Teacher Support and Development Interventions
Save the Children commissioned research on teacher support and development as part of a strategy to build professional and technical capacity through sharing knowledge at global, regional and country levels. The research, which this document summarizes, s
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Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) Results: Bangladesh
In 2011, Save the Children field tested early childhood development resources geared toward developing emergent literacy and math (ELM) skills in young children. Testing was done as a part of a USAID-funded early childhood care and development (ECCD) prog
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Save the Children Presentation on Learning to Read Overview: Major Issues, Overall Challenges
Save the Children's presentation at the All Children Reading Workshop, Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2012. It reviews the major issues and overall challenges to learning to read, including the necessary reading skills, active learning methodologies, mother ton